Kasparov's Queen on d6 is just killing Black's game. Black's rook can't leave the a-file without dropping the a6-pawn. This pawn can't be lost; it's the reason White has, for the moment, zero passed pawns instead of two connected.

The Bc8 is obviously frozen, and the Nd7 is stuck defending the e5-pawn. Lastly the Queen must defend the e6-pawn, the loss of which would be quickly fatal for Black. So basically, nothing can move. Black's <21...Qf6> is an attempt to cover the e5 pawn, freeing the knight to move. The ensuing move-pair <22.Bh3 Kf7> renews Black's "threat" to free the d7-knight. Probably Short didn't really expect that Kasparov would allow him to crawl his pieces out, but there was nothing else.

pawn to QB4: eh? just for a minute I wondered if my mum had come upon an idea unknown to her fellow English. But here's the Daily Telegraph well aware of the concept of French toast: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodandd... and the BBC's heard of it as well.

Eric Farley: If you think that tv sitcoms don't amuse you, turn to chess: you'll have lots of fun:
1)Khalifman Fide world champion.
2)Janowsky trying to defeat Lasker.
3)Bogoljubov trying to defeat Alekhine.
4)Short trying to defeat Kasparov.
5)To a lesser extent, Gelfand trying to defeat Anand.
6)You'll also have a lot of fun reading the books by those bloated egos
who add their names to the titles of the books as if chess were their own creation. They're nothing but My-Fritz-said-so would-be authors who are keen to criticize moves by players and give suggestions without having the decency to say that their suggestions are actually Fritz' or Rybka's.

not sure it is a help....In his ground breaking series "Opening for White According to Anand", Khalifman mentions Black has a universal plan of Bxd4 so suggests 11. Nb3 and thus does not even get here! OK.... Whilst the latest edition of ECO C (from 2006) notes that Short's 15...f6 is bad and gives 15...a5 16. Bb5 Rb8 unclear. Shirov played black in a game against a certain Langheinrich, Germany 2003 here.

Bob Loblaw: According to John Nunn 15 ... f6?! is the source of black's woes. Here is what he writes about the move: " Black seeks to attack the e5 pawn and further reduce white's central control. If the exchange of pawns ...fe5, fe5 occurs, then the e5-pawn will be weak and exposed to attack. However, the move has serious defect: Black opens the position up while he is behind in development. The newly-opened lines permit White to launch and attack which would not otherwise have been possible. In other words, there is nothing wrong with Black's basic idea (to undermine e5) but it doesn't work for tactical reasons. While strategic planning is an important component of chess thinking, it is always necessary to take the specifics of the position into account. Having said that, Short's idea only fails because of very accurate and dynamic play by Kasparov - a half-hearted response by White would have given Black good chances. It is worth nothing (sic) that had White played 13 h5 instead of 13 ♖h3 then the move f6 in the analogous position would have good chances of success - as we shall see, the activity of White's rook along the third rank is an important factor. 15...a5 is best, threatening 16...♗a6. After 16. ♗b5 ♖b8 (16...♗a6?? loses the exchange to 17. ♗d7 ♕d7 18 ♘b6) 17. ♗d3 Black, it is true, can no longer play ...♗a6 but he has gained time and by continuing 17... ♕c7 can reach a reasonable position."

VAHAKN: watch the middle game from move 15 to move 30 ... !! f5 and then c4 with the idea of moving the knight from a4 to g5 and destroying blacks solid center pawns ... nobody CARLSEN , HOUDINI , STOCKFISH ,.. no no no ... FISCHER ? inhuman !

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